British Airways will resume direct London-Tehran flights today, four years after the service was suspended.
The six-day-a-week service from Heathrow will start tonight, just after 9pm and will be the first direct flight by a UK carrier to Iran since October 2012, a year after the British embassy was closed in Tehran.
The embassy re-opened last year and some sanctions against Iran were lifted in January.
Meanwhile, BA is to cancel one of its two daily London City Airport-New York all-business-class services from the end of October.
BA will continue to operate the 9.45am service out of London City, but the 4pm service will no longer operate.
A spokesman said: "We will be flying up to 12 times a day from London to New York rather than the originally planned 13 times a day in the coming months."
